Sakiet Sidi Youssef () is a town and commune in the

Kef Governorate Kef Governorate ( ' ; ) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It comprises chiefly part of the dorsal Atlas Mountains and their foothills in north-western Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 4,965 km2 and has a pop ...

, Tunisia, near the

border Borders are generally defined as geography, geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by polity, political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other administrative divisio ...

with Algeria. As of 2014, it had a population of 6,335.

History

In Roman times, the town was known as Naraggara. Roman historian

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding i ...

says that the

Battle of Zama The Battle of Zama was fought in 202 BC in what is now Tunisia between a Roman Republic, Roman army commanded by Scipio Africanus and a Ancient Carthage, Carthaginian army commanded by Hannibal. The battle was part of the Second Punic War an ...

at the conclusion of the

Second Punic War The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of Punic Wars, three wars fought between Ancient Carthage, Carthage and Roman Republic, Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC. For ...

in 202 BCE took place near Naraggara.Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow (editors), ''Oxford Classical Dictionary''
(Oxford University Press 2012, ) On 8 February 1958, by French forces in the belief that it was serving as a refuge for Algerian independence fighters. About 20 French bombers and fighters attacked causing at least 70 deaths and 130 wounded. This event sparked an international outcry and helped precipitate the end of the

Algerian War The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) ''; '' (and sometimes in Algeria as the ''War of 1 November'') was an armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (Algeri ...

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Communes of Tunisia {{Tunisia-geo-stub 1958 in the Algerian War Spillover of the Algerian War Tunisia geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Airstrikes conducted by France Algeria–Tunisia border Algeria–Tunisia military relations France–Tunisia relations Populated places in Kef Governorate

History

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